Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 10 days ago

Article level metrics from WoS

Metrics available:

With subscription to Web of Science 

  • WoS citations (Expanded API needed) (5.25.0) 
  • Highly cited papers (InCites API needed)(5.26.0) 
  • Hot paper (InCites API needed) (5.26.0)

(WoS Starter API does not include Research Output citations, Hot Papers, Hot Paper)

Updating Citations:

Web of Science citations can be populated into Pure in two ways:

A) Synchronised using job

We are using the premium edition of the WoS API 

To enable Administrator > Integrations > WoS metrics > Configuration, where you will need to provide the WoS Expanded API key.

B) Uploaded using spreadsheet

WoS citations can be uploaded to research output as yearly metrics (citations by year)

Navigate to Administrator → Citations and Impact factor → Citations

Matches to add citations is done on title, author names, and journal name. It gets summed up to a total score and the highest scoring publication is chosen. Title needs to be 80% equal before a publication is taken into consideration.

Updating Highly cited papers + Hot papers:

We are using the Incited edition of the WoS API

To enable the automatic import of metrics from InCites:

Instructions Screenshot

Go to: 

Administrator > Integrations > Web of Science InCites API research output metrics

Insert API key in the configuration page.

In this page it is also possible to set the schedule at which the job will run.

When enabling the automatic import of article-level metrics from InCites it is possible to remove any metrics that were previously imported into Pure.
If I change of enviroment is detected the job is automatically paused (by default) to avoid the risk of overwriting existing metrics in Pure.

Available in Pure:

The WoS citations + Hot paper + Highly cited paper are stored on the Research Output editor → Metrics tab

 

Pure portal:

Web of Science citations are available on Pure Portal

Hot paper + Highly cited paper are not available on Pure Portal

 

Available in Webservice

Citations + Hot papers + Highly cited papers are available 

 

Available in reporting:

Citations + Hot papers + Highly cited papers are available for reporting

 

Title Description File to be used in 5.27
WoS citation per publication Number of citations per publication - can be used to find publication with highest citation count TODO
Total number of WoS citations per person Aggregated number of total citations per person, based on the related Research Output - can be used to locate most cited author TODO